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[soc_puppet]

For anyone who's missed it, Tumblr is slightly imploding again. It seems pretty serious this time, with the attempt to monetize people's accounts, and specifically Tumblr's blatant attempts to capitalize on people monetizing fannish content and then leave them out to dry in the event of a C&D. I understand that the site needs money to function, but uh. Yikes.

Anyway, long live Dreamwidth, my internet home.

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[prism0467]

Hasn't Tumblr changed hands since 2018? It seems cursed; it can't seem to turn a decent profit for its owner, despite all the activity on the site. While I don't agree with it, I'm not surprised the current owner is attempting to pull this craziness now.

I ditched Tumblr during the NSFW purge, and while I do miss it at times, I wouldn't change anything. Long Live Dreamwidth indeed!

[soc_puppet]

Jeez, probably? It would not surprise me in the slightest. I think it went to Yahoo for millions, and then Wordpress for maybe tens or hundreds of thousands? Either way, I care very little about who owns it, except inasmuch as they want to profit off of tempting (pressuring? coercing isn't quite right...) their userbase into doing illegal things and then throwing said userbase under the bus at the first sign of trouble. I understand that Tumblr needs a source of revenue, but even if there weren't better options, they could be handling this one a whole lot better.

The NSFW ban pissed me off, but FF.net survived over a decade in spite of theirs, so in retrospect I'm not surprised that Tumblr didn't die off from it. (Also there's a number of users that I don't know where I'd find elsewhere, except maybe Twitter, and no way in hell am I spending my social media time there. I will figure out how RSS feeds work first.)